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OBLITERATION { a poem }

8/12/23 in Texas

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Kalisa Augustine
Aug 12, 2023
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red balloon on white wall
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Obliteration.

God rang the gong.

Everyone else disintegrated

You shared your song.

Fires roar in the shadows.

Will you let it free?

I wanted you to be you.

I wanted me to be me.

Tempered in a box.

Held at a distance.

Face me. We’ve only an instance.

Obliteration. Obliteration.

Steel silence cuffed me into the mud.

I hate chains. …

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